Thursday, May 15, 2008

Put Spygate to Rest

Matt Walsh is the Paris Hilton of sports. We sit around and talk about tapes that at first only a few had seen and are now leaking all over the internet, he really has no talent or ambition and is makes the news for simply showing up for appointments with legitimate members of society.

I struggle to understand why it is that I need seven different NFL experts to break down the impact of Spygate and how it has been overblown for the past several months. Since the story broke it sounded like the Patriots were getting the firm slap on the wrist for something that likely many teams are guilty of and they had been warned about before. Certainly the allegation of taping the Rams' walk through was more severe, but overall we knew everything we know now only hours into the initial reports.

At the start of SportsCenter I heard that Spygate can be put to rest, then later I heard John Clayton and other ESPN analysts breaking down what will happen next. Do we really need a next!? The Patriots were guilty, they admitted guilt. The paper overreacted, they posted an apology. I changed the channel, ESPN News was running the same story.

One of the questions posted to a sports talk show host was if the NFL would recover from the Spygate scandal. I'm sorry as maybe I'm incredibly under reacting to the ongoings of illegal taping of defensive signals (something that has happened in baseball for decades), but Spygate just was not a major story after the first 48 hours. Very few fans outside of Boston continued to track the progress of this story aside from the 5 minute caveat on ESPN or Fox Sports any time mention of pro football was made.

After months of this annoying, non-developing story, let's please put this to rest. I'm about as interested in hearing more about Spygate as I was hearing about the NHL Lockout. It was simply a non-issue that 98% of sports fans did not care about. Let's move on.

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Has anyone else wondered what John Clayton would look like with Mel Kiper Jr.'s hair?

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